EP2110977B1 - Uplink control channel transmission method and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

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EP2110977B1
EP2110977B1 EP09163501.1A EP09163501A EP2110977B1 EP 2110977 B1 EP2110977 B1 EP 2110977B1 EP 09163501 A EP09163501 A EP 09163501A EP 2110977 B1 EP2110977 B1 EP 2110977B1
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  • the present invention relates to a communication system, and in particular, but not exclusively, to transmissions between stations of a communication system.
  • Wireless communication media may be provided between a station of a communication network and a user equipment. Wireless communication media may also be provided between two user equipment or between two stations of a communication network.
  • a wireless communication systems may be used for various types of communication, such as for voice communication or data communication.
  • a wireless system may provide circuit switched or packet switched services or both.
  • packet switched services data e.g. speech data, user data, video data or other data
  • HSD high speed data
  • a cellular communication system An example of wireless communication systems is a cellular communication system.
  • the user equipment may access the communication network via access entities referred to as cells, hence the name cellular system.
  • the skilled person knows the basic operational principles and elements of a cellular network and these are therefore not explained herein in any greater detail.
  • a cell can be defined as an radio access entity that is served by one or several base stations (BS) serving user equipment (UE) via a wireless interface therebetween.
  • BS base stations
  • UE user equipment
  • Examples of the cellular networks include networks that are based on access systems such as the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), WCDMA (Wide-band CDMA), TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access), or SDMA (Space Division Multiple Access) and hybrids thereof.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • WCDMA Wide-band CDMA
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
  • SDMA Space Division Multiple Access
  • a wireless communication system is typically provided with a radio resource management function.
  • a feature of the radio resource management is that it may continuously adjust the use of resources such as the power levels between a base (transceiver) station and user equipment associated with said base station during communication between the base station and the user equipment.
  • Use of radio resources may be controlled for transmissions that occur from the base station towards the user equipment (downlink) and from the user equipment towards the base station (uplink). The adjustment is done in order to provide a sufficient quality and reliability for the transmission between the base station and the user equipment in various conditions and, on the other hand, to reduce power consumption and interference caused by the communication to other devices.
  • a user equipment may communication simultaneously with a number of base stations.
  • Figure 1 shows an example where a user equipment MS1 is in communication with two base stations BS1, BS2.
  • the simultaneous communication with a plurality of base stations may occur, for example, when a user equipment is to be handed over from a base station to another base station.
  • the handover may be performed by means of the so called soft handover procedure.
  • the CDMA soft handover may be used to reduce the interference caused by the user equipment.
  • the transmission power of a user equipment is typically adjusted based on power control commands from a base station that request for the lowest transmission power.
  • Each base station involved in the soft handover measures the quality of the signal from a given user equipment and sends its power control commands to the user equipment asking the power up or down.
  • the user equipment increases its transmission power only if all base stations involved in the soft handover request for more power.
  • the user equipment may receive data such as control messages, user data and so on from a base station.
  • the user equipment may receive data from more than one base station. Some of these data transmissions may need to be responded by the user equipment.
  • the response may, for example, be an acknowledgement that the user equipment did receive the message and/or that the user equipment did accomplish a task in response to the message and/or a response to an inquiry and/or any other feedback that may be required by the base station.
  • 3G WCDMA third generation wideband code division multiple access
  • the above referred high speed data may be enabled e.g. by means of the so called high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology.
  • the high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) may include functions such as fast hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), adaptive coding and modulation (AMC) and/or fast cell selection (FCS). These functions are known by the skilled person and will thus not be explained in more detail.
  • HARQ fast hybrid automatic repeat request
  • AMC adaptive coding and modulation
  • FCS fast cell selection
  • each user equipment receiving data on a high speed downlink shared channel also has an associated dedicated channel (DCH) allocated.
  • the dedicated channel may be mapped to a dedicated physical channel (DPCH) in the physical layer.
  • the DPCH is typically divided into dedicated physical data channel (DPDCH) and dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) both in the uplink and the downlink.
  • Data such as the power control commands, transport format information, and dedicated pilot symbols are transmitted on the DPCCH.
  • Information such as diversity feedback information may also be transmitted on DPCCH in the uplink.
  • the HS-DSCH may be mapped to one or several high speed physical downlink shared channels (HS-PDSCH) in the physical layer.
  • the associated dedicated channel is typically provided both in the downlink and the uplink.
  • the dedicated channel is typically used to carry HSDPA related information/signalling as well as other dedicated data such as speech and control data.
  • the user equipment may communicate with several base stations at the same time.
  • the associated dedicated channel may be in soft handover.
  • the HS-DSCH may be associated also with a shared control channel (SCCH).
  • SCCH shared control channel
  • the SCCH can be used to carry HS-DSCH specific information/signalling to those users receiving data on the HS--DSCH.
  • a current proposal is to use the dedicated channel to inform the user equipment that it has data to be read on the HS-DSCH and SCCH. That is, only those users receiving data at a given time will receive an indication on the dedicated channel.
  • the dedicated channel may be called as a pointer channel since it points to the shared channels.
  • the dedicated channel may also contain information about modulation and coding schemes, power levels and similar parameters used for the shared channels. This information can be sent also on the shared channel.
  • the shared control channel on the other hand is used to carry information that is specific to the data transmitted on the shared data channel (HS-DSCH). This information can contain for instance packet numbers for the HARQ and so on.
  • the shared control channel can be sent on a separate code channel (code multiplexed) or using the same code channels as HS-PDSCH (time multiplexed).
  • the HS-DSCH is assumed not to be in soft handover. That is, each base station is assumed to have their own shared channel and the user equipment is assumed to receive data from only one base station at a time.
  • FCS fast cell selection
  • the shared channels does not use power control. Instead, the shared channels are proposed to be transmitted with fixed or semi-fixed power.
  • the term 'semi-fixed' means in here that the power is not changed often. The power could, for instance, be a cell specific parameter.
  • the high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) is planned to be associated with a dedicated channel which would carry in the downlink at least information regarding the timing when the receiving station is to receive on a shared channel.
  • the associated dedicated channel may possibly carry also other information.
  • the associated dedicated channel may carry, for example, the required acknowledgements (ACK) for a fast HARQ.
  • a problematic situation may occur especially when the associated dedicated channel is in the soft handover mode.
  • the uplink power is adjusted in accordance with the best quality uplink among an active set of base stations.
  • signalling on the high speed shared channel may be transmitted from another base station.
  • the communication link between the user equipment and said other base station may be of poorer quality than said best uplink connection.
  • said other base station expects to receive responses such as an acknowledgement from the user equipment. Since the quality of this uplink connection may be of substantially poorer quality than what the best uplink is, there is a risk that the response is not properly received and decoded or is not received at all.
  • the fast cell selection function may be used to guarantee in some occasions that best possible downlink is utilised for communication towards the user equipment.
  • the base station that provides the best uplink may be different than the base station providing the best downlink. This may be so, for example due to fast fading or other changes in the signalling conditions. This may increase the unreliability of the responding functionality.
  • the prior art proposals for solving this problem include so called strong coding, e.g., by using repetition coding.
  • the acknowledgement (ACK) bit or bits is/are repeated several times. This, however, may cause too much additional load on the air interface and/or reserve too much of the radio resources if one wants to guarantee the correct reception of the acknowledgement message.
  • US5991618 describes a technique for estimating a communication mode quality in a wireless communications system.
  • WO98/56120 describes a technique for controlling the power levels of transmissions in telecommunications systems.
  • Embodiments of the present invention aim to address one or several of the above problems.
  • the exemplifying communication system comprises a radio access part adapted to operate based on the WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) technique.
  • WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
  • a feature of the WCDMA based systems is that a plurality of user equipment is allowed to communicate with a base transceiver station in a cell over a radio interface (only one user equipment, however, is shown in Figure 1 for clarity).
  • a user equipment is also allowed to be in radio communication with more than one base station at the same time.
  • Figure 1 shows only two base stations BS1, BS2 for clarity.
  • the user equipment comprises a mobile station MS1.
  • the term mobile station refers to a mobile user equipment that is enabled to move from a location to another.
  • a mobile station may also roam from one network to another network, if the other network is compatible with the standard the given mobile station is adapted to and there is a roaming agreement between the operators of the two networks.
  • Each of the base stations BS1, BS2 may be provided with a controller entity BCE.
  • the controller entity may be adapted to perform various task, such as to measure and control power levels that are used for communication between the base station and the mobile station MS1.
  • the operation of the base station may also be controlled by at least one further controller entity, such as a radio network controller NC.
  • the arrangement is typically such the various control functions associated with a base station are divided between the controller entity of the base station and a network controller entity.
  • a network controller entity may be adapted to control one or several base stations.. The various network controller entities may be connected to each other for communication therebetween.
  • Communication between the mobile station and the base stations may comprise any kind of data such as speech data, video data or other data.
  • the base stations and mobile station communicate also control data.
  • the control data may associate with management operations.
  • the control data may comprise messages such as various request and acknowledgements.
  • Data may be transmitted between the stations as a plurality of data symbols in subsequent data or radio frames.
  • the signals carrying the data may be transmitted with variable data symbol transmission rates (data speeds), wherein the transmission rate may be different in subsequent frames of the transmission.
  • the data symbols may be transmitted based on different access techniques. For example, in the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) system data is encoded for transmission by processing data symbols to be transmitted by a spreading code for each transmission channel. In the TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) system data is transmitted in different time slots allocated for different channels.
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
  • the communication between the mobile station MS1 and the base stations BS1 and BS2 may occur via different communication channels, such as via a dedicated channel, shared channel and so on.
  • the channels may be distinguished from one another by the use of scrambling codes in a manner which is known by the skilled person.
  • base station BS1 has a weaker uplink with the mobile station MS1 than the other base station BS2. This implies that the power control of the uplink follows the base station BS2.
  • the downlink from base station BS1 may be stronger than what the downlink from the base station BS2 is.
  • Each of the base stations of Figure 1 may be enabled to measure one or more parameter that associate with the connection.
  • the parameter may be a quality parameter such as the power levels or signal to interference (SIR) level in the uplink. That is, the power level or SIR level at which each base station BS1, BS2 receives from the mobile station MS1 may be known by the respective base station.
  • SIR signal to interference
  • the power control mechanism in the access network is typically such that the mobile station MS1 follows the power commands received from the "strongest" base station, e.g. the base station BS2 that receives the signal transmitted by MS1 with the best quality parameter.
  • the transmission power of the mobile station MS1 is then adjusted accordingly even if the other base station BS1 keeps on asking for more transmission power. This is so since the mobile station MS1 only increases transmission power if all those base stations that are in soft handover with the mobile station MS1 ask for more power.
  • the mobile station MS1 adjusts it transmission power based on the power commands received from the base station BS2.
  • the power adjustment mechanism may be based on use of the so called quality target or power threshold values. If the quality of the connection is below the target value, the mobile station MS1 is asked to increase the transmission power and if the quality is above the target, the power is asked to be decreased.
  • connection quality target can be announced e.g. by means of so called Eb/No (Signal Energy/Noise) or SIR (Signal to Interference Ratio) or desired signal level target or a similar parameter indicating a quality measure which can be estimated for the connection between two stations.
  • Eb/No Synchronization Energy/Noise
  • SIR Synchronization to Interference Ratio
  • the quality of the connection is controlled based on the target value. Any of the connection parameters that have influence to the quality of the connection should follow any changes in the target. In most cases it is sufficient if the transmission power is increased/decreased in order to meet the quality target value.
  • a more detailed description of a possible closed loop power control mechanism can be found, for example, from 3GPP (third generation partnership project) technical specification No. TS25.214 "Physical layer procedures (FDD)".
  • the CDMA systems may include also an outer loop power control mechanism. This may adjust the power or SIR target based on other quality target parameters such as the bit error rate (BER) or frame error rate (FER) or any other similar quality target the connection should meet.
  • BER bit error rate
  • FER frame error rate
  • a first station may transmit data or a request or an enquiry to a second station. After reception of said transmission the second station then transmits a response back to the first station.
  • information associated with at least one parameter for the response is signalled from the first station to the second station. This parameter may, for example, associate with the required power levels of the response and/or the number of times the response shall be transmitted and so on. The response signalling is then performed based on the received information.
  • the first station is the base station BS1 and the second station is the mobile station MS1.
  • the base station BS1 allocates a channel to the mobile station MS1 and sends data thereto on the high speed data shared channel (HS-DSCH)
  • the base station BS1 expects the mobile station to return an acknowledgement (ACK).
  • HS-DSCH high speed data shared channel
  • the base station BS1 may provide the mobile station with information on an associated control channel (either dedicated or shared) regarding the power levels required for the response.
  • the information provides the mobile station MS1 with an offset value.
  • the offset value indicates the difference in power relative to power level used for transmission in the best uplink with the base station BS2.
  • the base station BS1 determines the offset that is needed for the reliable acknowledgement transmission from the mobile station MS1 based on one or more measurements associated with transmissions from the mobile station. The power is determined such that a predefined level of reliability is obtained for the decoding of the acknowledgement at the base station BS1.
  • the mobile station MS1 is provided with appropriate power control entity PC.
  • a per se known power control entity can be adapted to incorporate a feature that enables adjustment of the response transmission power levels based on the information received from the base station BS1. That is, the power control entity of the mobile station may make a decision that the response transmission needs to be accomplished in a different power level than what is used for communication with the best base station BS2 and control the transmission accordingly.
  • the acknowledgement message may be transmitted back to the base station BS1 on a dedicated channel.
  • the dedicated channel may be 'on' all the time even if there is no acknowledgements to be sent. This is so in order to keep the closed loop power control running.
  • the active base station BS1 may measure a quality parameter such as the signal to interference ratio (SIR) of this dedicated channel for overall power control purposes. This may be done e.g. based on so called pilot bits that are transmitted by the mobile station.
  • SIR signal to interference ratio
  • the base station BS1 can calculate a required power offset.
  • the power offset requirement is signalled from the base station BS1 to the mobile station MS1 with the downlink data packet to tell the mobile MS1 how much more power is required for the acknowledgement transmission.
  • New signalling bits may be added in the downlink transmission from the base station BS1 to tell the required power offset for the user equipment MS1. These bits may be sent, e.g., on the shared control channel since only the user equipment or those user equipment receiving on the downlink shared data channel need to send the acknowledgement ACK. That is, this information is not needed all the time, but only when there is data packets to acknowledge. Alternatively, the base station may sent these bits to the user equipment via a dedicated control channel or dedicated data channel.
  • the power control may be accomplished in a slot by slot basis in access techniques wherein the transmissions occur in slots.
  • a transmission can be divided into the slots e.g. based on time or by means of a spreading code.
  • the mobile station MS1 may be adapted to assign power for the slots in accordance with a "normal" power control mechanism unless the mobile station has been provided with information which requires use of a different power level for a slot (or several slots) that are allocated for the response.
  • '0' could indicate that an offset of 5dB is required and '1' could indicate an offset of 10dB According to another possibility '0' could indicate that no offset is required and '1' could indicate that a predefined additional power is required.
  • 2 to 4 bits may be used in a typical application for defining 4 to 16 different power offset levels.
  • a step between the different power levels may be, for example, 2, 5 or 10 dB.
  • the step size between the power levels may be adapted to change nonlinearly.
  • FIG. 3 shows transmission of data packets between a base station (node B) and two user equipment UE1 and UE2.
  • base station node B
  • UE1 and UE2 user equipment
  • Figure 3 shows channels in association with only one base station, a plurality of base stations may have communication channels with the user equipment UE1 and/or UE2 at the same time. Other, channels are, however, not shown for reasons of clarity.
  • a number of packets is shown to be transmitted to a first use equipment UE1 and to a second user equipment UE2 on the data channel HSPDSCH.
  • the vertical lines of Figure 3 dividing the transmission into sections indicate a high speed downlink packet access transmission time intervals (HSDPA TTI).
  • the HSDPA TTI is a collection of a defined number of slots. That is, the high speed downlink packet access transmission time interval (TTI) defines a period for data transportation between user equipment and a base station via the high speed downlink shared channel (HSDSCH). Logically the TTI can thus be seen to correspond the concept of data frames.
  • TTI high speed downlink packet access transmission time interval
  • HSDSCH high speed downlink shared channel
  • acknowledgements are provided in accordance with the fast hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme.
  • a so called N-channel HARQ is also assumed to be used for the fast HARQ together with a so called stop-and-wait protocol.
  • the stop-and-wait protocol may be used in order to reduce buffering requirements of the receiving station.
  • the N-channel HARQ supports asynchronous transmission. Thus different users can be scheduled freely without need to wait for completion of a given transmission.
  • the receiving station may need, however, to know to which HARQ process the packet belongs to. This information can be explicitly signalled on a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) control channel (CH), e.g. the SCCH.
  • HSDPA high speed downlink packet access
  • CH control channel
  • the transmission to the first user equipment UE1 may in such case be delayed by two TTIs.
  • the processing times of data packet to different user equipment should be defined such that continuous transmission to a user equipment is possible.
  • Each packet is preferably acknowledged during the transmission of other packets so that the downlink (DL) channel can be kept occupied all the time when there are packets to be transmitted.
  • DL downlink
  • FIG 3 the uplink acknowledgements are shown to be transmitted on the dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH).
  • Arrows R1 to R9 indicate various relations between different operations. That is, relations between pointer bits on the DL DPCH, shared data and control channel (HS-PDSCH and SCCH) transmission and the acknowledgement transmissions.
  • each of the double lined arrows R2, R5 and R9 indicates a quality measurement performed for the uplink of a given user equipment on the respective dedicated control channel.
  • the single lined arrows R1, R4 and R8 indicate the relationships between the pointer bits and shared control channel SCCH in the downlink.
  • the single lined arrows R3 and R6 indicate the relationships between the downlink data channel HSPDSCH and acknowledgements in the uplink. The acknowledgements are transmitted with a power that has been adjusted based on information received on the SCCH, that is based on the results of the measurements.
  • the base station transmits a pointer bit to the user equipment UE1.
  • the pointer bit indicates that the user equipment UE1 shall receive data and control information during the next TTI (TTI2) on the HS-PDSCH and on the SCCH.
  • TTI2 next TTI
  • the base station measures the quality of the uplink of the user equipment UE1.
  • the SIR of the uplink can be measured from the dedicated pilot symbols transmitted on the DPCCH in every slot. Based on this quality measurement, the base station provides the user equipment UE1 in the TTI2 with information regarding the power level that should be used when transmitting the acknowledgement during TTI4. This relation is indicated by arrow R3.
  • the power level information can be provided as a power offset, as explained above. This power offset information may be, for example, provided as a field of a few bits in the shared control channel (SCCH).
  • the measurements may be averaged over a longer period of time or otherwise processed.
  • the arrow R2 simply shows that the power offset used for the transmission is based on the measurement(s) done before the transmission of the power offset.
  • the user equipment UE1 After having received the power level information the user equipment UE1 sends the acknowledgement using a power level that is based on information from the base station.
  • the acknowledgement may be a positive acknowledgement (A in Figure 3 ) or a negative acknowledgement (N in Figure 3 ).
  • acknowledgement slots are shown to be higher in order to illustrate that increased transmit power is used for these acknowledgements.
  • the increased power may be applied for the whole slot or only on the acknowledgement bits within the slot.
  • the same increased power may also be used in other slots if they contain other information such as measurement or quality report which is sent only to the same base station as the acknowledgement.
  • the increased power may also be applied to the entire TTI or even a number of TTIs.
  • Figure 3 illustrates also a second set of relations R4 to R9 that associate with the user equipment UE2.
  • the acknowledgement was negative (N) and therefore a new pointer bit was given on the DL CPCH channel of the second user equipment UE2 for retransmission of the message.
  • the uplink quality measurement is preferably accomplished as late as possible.
  • information associated e.g. with the measurement as indicated by the arrow R2 is transmitted in the next transmission time interval (TTI2) on the control channel (DLSCCH).
  • the embodiments are especially suitable for acknowledgements because the acknowledgements need to be sent in response to a downlink transmission and also because the reliability of the acknowledgement transmission should be high.
  • the message specific control information may be signalled only when the first station determines that a different parameter is needed in order to ensure a reliable response by the user equipment.
  • Figure 4 shows another technique in which the user equipment first follows power commands from the strongest base station, that is from a base station BS2. Another base station BS1 sends a 'power offset1' message to the user equipment. After having received the 'power offset1' message the power control function of the user equipment starts to follow said other base station.
  • the user equipment power control may set its transmission power based on the message from the base station BS1 for a predetermined time.
  • the user equipment may alternatively follow the commands from the base station BS1 as long as it has some information, such as acknowledgements or measurement reports or so on to be sent to this base station.
  • the user equipment may also wait for new power offset information from any of the base stations it is in connection with. That is, a new offset such as the shown 'Offset2' will replace the previous offset parameter.
  • offset2 may be a function of the said first offset.
  • the second offset may also be informed by the base station BS2 having the best uplink.
  • each base station in connection may continuously measure the quality of the uplink.
  • each of the base stations may send power offset information to the user equipment telling how much the power should be changed (increased or decreased) in order to meet the quality target. This information is preferably sent on the dedicated control channel.
  • the user equipment may then use the offset that results in the lowest transmission power or alternatively follow the normal power control commands.
  • the user equipment may then use the power offset sent by that base station.
  • the offset may be sent periodically, e.g., in each slot as the power control commands, or once per every n slots and so on.
  • the offset information may also be sent when needed, e.g., when the value of the offset exceeds some threshold values.
  • the user equipment may also be forced to use stronger coding for the transmission of the acknowledgement message.
  • the user equipment may be instructed to transmit the acknowledgement repeatedly. For example, instead of sending the acknowledgement once the user equipment may be instructed to transmit the acknowledgement three, five, or ten times and so on.
  • the user equipment is instructed to transmit the acknowledgement e.g. in three slots instead of one slot so that the acknowledgement can be decoded reliably.
  • the above discussed transmission parameter information provision mechanism may also be used in connection with other signalling functions than acknowledgements.
  • the response messages could be, for example, measurement reports or other reports.
  • the herein proposed signalling mechanism may be especially advantageous if a report is requested by a base station of a plurality of base stations in communication with a user equipment.
  • the base station may inform the user equipment of the power offset and/or any other parameter that is to be used for the response towards the specific base station.
  • the adjustment may also be based on other information that associates with the interface between the two stations.
  • the base station BS1 may request for a certain power offset based on analysis of the previous responses from the mobile station MS1. If the analysis indicates that a certain number of responses has not been correct, the offset may be increased in order to improve the reliability.
  • the responses may be earlier ACKs or other data transmitted from the user equipment, e.g., speech packets.
  • the above disclosed solution is applicable also in instances where the first message is sent from the user equipment to a base station.
  • the user equipment may inform the base station of any requirements that it may have for the response from the base station.
  • a first station transmitting a message that is to be responded by a second station may insert in the message information regarding e.g. coding and/or power that is to be used for responding to the particular packet.
  • the response may also be sent, for example, on a shared control channel or a data channel in systems where such a channel is defined.
  • a specific acknowledgement channel may also be defined.
  • the embodiment of the present invention has been described in the context of a CDMA system..This invention is also applicable to any other access techniques including time division multiple access, frequency division multiple access or space division multiple access as well as any hybrids thereof.
  • the base station may in some communication standards, such as those associated with the 3 rd generation (3G) universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), be referred to as node B.
  • 3G 3 rd generation
  • UMTS universal mobile telecommunications system
  • a dedicated physical channel is used only in association with a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). That is, no other data is transmitted on the DPDCH.
  • the power control of the DPCH may then follow base station that transmits on the active HS-DSCH (both in the uplink and the downlink) instead of the best base station. If no other data is transported on the uplink DPDCH, then the uplink power control function of the mobile station could follow the active high speed data base station. In such a situation information regarding the power offset may not be needed for the uplink, since the power control function may adjust the power.

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